Year 9 Program

In Year 9 English, students continue to focus on building their skills in the key areas of reading, writing, and speaking and listening. Students develop these important skills in themed units, which includes an exploration of whether or not humanity is worth saving in the opening persuasive language unit, then an examination of people’s attitudes towards the homeless for the first text response task. The other main unit includes all of the second semester, where students will learn about prejudice and persecution through a comparison of texts about the stolen generation and the Holocaust. Students will also improve their reading skills through a Personal Learning Program and develop their literacy skills with the use of online technologies. This unit will include an incursion on the culture and history of First Australians.

In Year 9 students will continue to develop their mathematical skills and knowledge by studying three key content areas: Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry and Statistics and Probability. Students explore Indices, Ratio, Measurement, Probability, Graphs, Trigonometry and Statistics. They apply mathematics in each area and engage in classroom activities that strengthen conceptual understanding and develop logical reasoning.

In Year 9 Advanced Mathematics, students will complete an in-depth study of the three strands of the Mathematics curriculum: Number & Algebra, Measurement & Geometry, and Statistics & Probability. Advanced Mathematics places particular emphasis on developing high order mathematical reasoning skills in students. Students explore Indices, Ratio, Measurement, Probability, Graphs, Trigonometry, and Statistics. They apply Mathematics in each area and engage in classroom activities that strengthen conceptual understanding and develop logical reasoning.

Entrance into Advanced Mathematics is based on student results, as well as teacher recommendations.

This subject exposes students to a broad range of physical disciplines including; invasion, striking and fielding and divided court sports where they will develop their skills and tactics. Students set personal fitness goals, participate in fitness development and testing and experience community based recreational activities. In the theory component of the subject students will cover topics such as harm minimisation and healthy relationships.

In Science, students develop their skills in areas of Biology, Physics and Chemistry. In Chemistry they learn that all matter is made of atoms which are composed of protons, neutrons and electrons and that the atomic structure of elements are used to organise elements in the Periodic Table. They investigate the three types of radiation and explore how it is used in our everyday lives. In Biology, students learn to understand the concept of body in balance by looking closely into the Nervous system and the Endocrine system. For Physics, they learn that electric circuits can be designed for diverse purposes using different components and that the operation of circuits can be explained by the concepts of voltage and current.